Wireless connection on HP DV9000 laptop

[MirJafar Ali]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 2009/9/14 MirJafar Ali <mirjafarali at gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> [snipp]
> >> >
> >>        Your laptop sounds like it is like mine. The little light will
> stay
> >> orange but your wifi will work. Figure out how to remove the battery
> >> from your laptop. Remove the battery and plugin the charger and turn on
> >> the windows. When the little light turns blue, meaning the wifi is
> >> working, un-plug the charger from the laptop.
> >>
> >>        Now put the battery back in and boot up in Ubuntu and your wifi
> >> should
> >> start working.
> >>
> >>
> >> 73 Karl
> >
> > Hello Karl,
> >
> > Thanks for throwing light on the mysterious way to solve the problem. I
> > couldn't have never guessed that Wifi non-functionality is something to
> do
> > with batteries.
> >
>
> I believe the point of Karl's suggestion is to allow windows to enable
> the wifi interface in the laptop, then to kill windows by powering
> down without going through a normal shutdown, when windows may disable
> it again.  Correct me if I am wrong Karl.
>
> Apparently this has worked for some, including Karl. Others have
> suggested hibernating windows.  Of course any time you kill windows
> without a normal shutdowndown there is the risk of disk corruption.
> Also if you use windows you will have to repeat the exercise.
>
> It may be worth trying in order to determine whether this is the
> underlying cause of your problem.
>
> Colin
>
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Hello Karl,

My only concern about the proposed solution is whether plugging in/out has
to be done everytime I need wifi on the laptop which has windows too ?

Thanks.
Mir
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